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From: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Unit nomenclature (Was Disk transfer speed)
Message-ID: <520@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 00:48:22 GMT
References: <938@ccnysci.UUCP> <8810250344.AA02429@esplanade.csri.toronto.edu> <7255@dasys1.UUCP> <76349@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
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In article <76349@sun.uucp| poynton%vector@Sun.COM (Charles Poynton) writes:
|I propose some nomenclature which might reduce the incidence of confusion
|about data rates which has surrounded the recent SCSI discussions on
|comp.sys.next.
|
|First, international standards.
|
|Upper case "M" is the symbol for mega, a multiplier of 1000000.  Little-m
|is the symbol for milli, 1/1000, and care should be taken not to confuse
|it with mega.
|
| .. stuff deleted ..
|
|I suggest adopting upper-case K for 1024.  This does not conflict with any
|
| .. stuff deleted ..
|                                                        Rates are nearly
|always referenced to decimal mulipliers (for example, SCSI 4.8 MB/s, audio
|44.1 Mw/s).  Multiples of 1024 are generally restricted to describing
|capacity.

So why not start to forget about those 1024 and 1024*1024 units ??



				claudio

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